Joomla! Day Sydney 2008 is scheduled for Monday, May 19, 2008, in conjunction with CeBIT Australia. Community members from Sydney, Australia are finalizing plans for a great event to be held at the beautiful and world famous Sydney Conference and Exhibition Centre located in Darling Harbour. The event agenda is designed to share a broad range of technologies and ideas with a diverse audience of designers, students, charities, businesses, technical experts, and end users.

Topics include:

• A technical discussion entitled "Joomla! 1.5: Under the Hood" delivered by Andrew Eddie, Joomla! Core Team member and Development Working Group coordinator.
• Andrew will also present a session on "Joomla! 1.5 Template Overrides," an empowering toolset for Web site designers and developers.
• Brad Baker, Joomla! Core Team member and Joomla.org forum administrator will share helpful information for "Web site Performance and Security."
• Dinah Randall, founder and president of the Sydney Joomla! User Group and Joomla! Day conference organiser will speak on "Joomla! Creative - Templates and Design."
• Norm Douglas will present an overview entitled "Getting Started with Joomla!."
• Patrick Jackson will share "Joomla! Search Engine Optimization (SEO)" strategies and techniques needed to improve visibility of Joomla! Web sites.
• Damian Hickey will share how Freeway easily integrates with Joomla!, resulting in powerful eCommerce solutions.
• Ashton Murphy will share his experiences on the Google Highly Open Participation Contest and a cool surprise.
• At the end of the day, attendees can ask questions of a panel of Joomla! experts.

Following the event, all are invited for drinks and conversation Monday evening and to visit the Joomla! stand at CeBIT from May 20th to 22nd. Throughout the Open CeBIT conference, several Joomla! open source presentations will be held at CeBIT's Open Source Theatre.

Register now for Sydney Joomla! Day. Those who register by May 14th will receive early bird discounts and a better chance at getting one of the T-shirts only available for the first 100 registrants. We hope that the Sydney Joomla! Day 2008 is a great success and an enjoyable and informative way to have fun with Joomla!.

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